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May 21, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recognized bargaining unit, to reconsider whether they are supervisors.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that multiemployer pension plan actuaries can retroactively change assumptions underlying their withdrawal liability calculations, rejecting employers' argument for time restrictions on the methodology underpinning penalties for pulling out of a pension fund.
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May 20, 2026
AT&T California breached a settlement in a closed case through its delayed response to an information request made by a Communications Workers of America local, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, with board member Scott Mayer "reluctantly" concurring based on precedent he "vehemently disagrees" with.
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May 20, 2026
Starbucks urged the National Labor Relations Board to reject Workers United's bid to withdraw a challenge to a local official's decision denying a decertification election, asking the board to instead use the dispute to rethink its practice of tossing decertification petitions after finding merit to allegations of labor violations.
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May 20, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has no grounds to compel an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local to pay out a former union officer for unused vacation time, the union argued, asking the judge to toss the former officer's lawsuit.
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May 20, 2026
An addiction treatment center urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss claims that it included two employees in a layoff because of their efforts to organize with an American Federal of Teachers affiliate, arguing that the workers were selected because of performance issues.
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May 20, 2026
Boston University is allowed to bar union-represented undergraduate resident assistants from working other campus jobs, the university argued, asking a Massachusetts federal judge to vacate an arbitration award that ordered the school to allow students to do so.
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May 19, 2026
A concrete services company lost its challenge Tuesday to the way the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries classified its employees, with a state appeals court holding that L&I properly classified the workers as construction site surveyors who were owed higher wages.
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May 19, 2026
Organizations behind Wimbledon and the French Open asked a New York federal court to reject a player group's claims that they're denying it access to the tournaments in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit, arguing that no jurisdiction exists to grant any relief.
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May 19, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge on Tuesday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction against a food manufacturer, ruling that board prosecutors failed to show that employees working at the company would face irreparable harm without an order halting the company's labor law violations.
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May 19, 2026
A group of labor law professors have urged a New York federal court to side with New York City in a lawsuit challenging a city law that sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for private security guard employers, arguing that the law is not preempted by federal labor law.
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May 19, 2026
Employers remain hesitant to hold mandatory anti-union meetings during organizing campaigns despite questions about whether state or federal bans on what are commonly known as captive audience meetings would ultimately be enforced against them.
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May 19, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. told a New York federal judge Tuesday that it stands by its denial of a union pension fund's second application for a bailout, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a Second Circuit ruling ordering the agency to reassess the request.
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May 19, 2026
A Service Employees International Union local is refusing to let an arbitrator decide whether it violated a collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents the local's employees by extending a worker's probationary period by 180 days, the union said, asking a California federal judge to compel arbitration.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge threw out a Bay Area Toyota dealership's bid to overturn an arbitration award requiring the dealership to increase its paid sick leave days for Teamsters-represented employees, ruling that the dealership failed to state a basis for its request.
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May 18, 2026
John Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia serving time for corruption convictions, told a federal judge on Monday that he needed to be let out of prison because only he could provide the care his disabled wife needs to survive.
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May 18, 2026
The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract.
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May 18, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge on Monday accepted over the Teamsters' objections a deal to end a joint employer case against Amazon without an admission that it jointly employed unionized contract drivers.
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May 18, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor has urged the board to find that a Pennsylvania television station violated federal labor law when it terminated COVID-19-related benefits for employees, arguing the station was required to bargain with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists first.
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May 18, 2026
Amazon appeared likely Monday to lose its challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on mandatory anti-union meetings after an Eleventh Circuit panel doubted the company's standing to fight the policy, which the board announced but did not apply in a decision involving the company.
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May 18, 2026
An Office and Professional Employees International Union unit has urged the NLRB to reverse part of an agency judge's ruling finding that a Michigan hospital unilaterally hired temporary registered nurses to replace workers in the bargaining unit, arguing that the judge erred by determining that claims regarding the use of the nurses before April 2022 are time-barred.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge permanently blocked the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting a social services platform, saying agency officials' job protections are unconstitutional and inseparable from federal law, and that the board's pursuit of novel remedies flouts its targets' jury rights.
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May 15, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a disability discrimination suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Friday refused to rethink a panel's earlier decision that revived two proposed class actions against cereal giant Kellogg and transportation company FedEx in which retirees allege that their pension payments were lowballed due to outdated mortality tables used in conversions.